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by conatus 8y ago
Oh really. Thanks for this. Will check it out. We are heavy users of Google Sheets and Docs already so I know these will be used immediately.
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by conatus 8y ago
While they are on par for email, with Fastmail being superior in certain ways, you do get a deal more value from the Google G Suite as you get a lot more besides email incorporated in the price, i.e, cloud drive, the applications themselves
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by conatus 8y ago
I have to fall back to Google for almost every search for specific coding information. I want it to work but it really doesn't.
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by conatus 8y ago
And I really really hope this is better than the Fairphone 2 in terms of function. I bought one very much excited by the prospect but to be frank it was the worst phone qua phone I've ever owned with basic functionality continuously br
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by conatus 8y ago
This is very cool.
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by conatus 8y ago
With regard to the economic calculation problem. In the first instance Cockshott and Cottrell have demonstrated how with the computing technology of 1993 could create a system that allocated resources efficiently. It is now 2018 and compute
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by conatus 8y ago
> "Which can and always does a better job than central planning." Does it though? At what? Resource allocation? It is hugely inefficient and wasteful. Is that the same free market bootstrapped into existence by the state and ba
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by conatus 8y ago
Its important to note that when Corbyn talks about nationalisation he is talking about something more similar to this than top down state control. There is a partial critique of the post-1945 wave of nationalisation in John McDonnell's
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by conatus 8y ago
Like the mooted BDC is?
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by conatus 8y ago
The whole piece does have a general hot air feeling to it...
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by conatus 8y ago
There is an obvious model which can be for profit but bakes in user ownership and control: cooperatives. There is plenty of work being done on this area in online spaces - the platform cooperative movement. I wonder if it a major failure of
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by conatus 8y ago
In the world outside of Macs how much would £2,699.00 get me and what would be worth getting? For development work.
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by conatus 8y ago
Doubtless scrum can be imposed from above as a management tactic. This would open to more wider discussions about how power operates in workplaces. I don't know if there is anything intrinsic to Scrum that makes this more common as imp
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by conatus 8y ago
Well all I can say is that I've seen multiple teams implement scrum and this improve overall team productivity, usefulness to the wider organisation and general happiness amongst all members of the team. I have no evidence to suggest t
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by conatus 8y ago
Seems you are shakey ground, without empirical justification, to say that in the majority of cases when applied scrum goes badly. We are probably at the point of trading ancedotes, but I'd say in the majority of cases where I have seen
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by conatus 8y ago
Basically this. If the ecosystem in which scrum (or any process) is embedded is hostile then it will fail. But so will everything else, in time.
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by conatus 8y ago
Well, sure it stumbles into this fallacy but so does the roll out of any process involving humans that has a set of normative criteria with a given critique in hand. I always feel this fallacy is a weak response as norms can always be appli
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by conatus 8y ago
> Despite working in a a Scrum team, I recognise literally nothing of the problems that are described. Same. This process takes work, requires buy in by all levels of the company and needs to be fully understood including its error cases
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by conatus 8y ago
"no-one with the authority to balance the product owner and advocate for developing with higher quality" In a functional scrum team everyone on the team should be empowered to advocate this. In turn the product owner should be rec
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by conatus 8y ago
Perhaps tangential but does anyone know if you can run Ableton Live on Linux using some emulation layer? This is maybe the one piece of software keeping me from ditching Mac OS X.
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The Tech Cooperatives Changing How Startups Do Business(wired.co.uk)
1 points by conatus 8y ago|1 comments
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Open Source Is Not Enough (by Substack)(notesfrombelow.org)
2 points by conatus 8y ago|0 comments
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by conatus 9y ago
OpenShift is really good.
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by conatus 9y ago
The most important thing here seems to be "For every part of my code change, if I break the code, will a test fail?". Or as I'd put it "if you break the code deliberately does the test actually fail?". Seen quite a
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by conatus 9y ago
Interesting piece, though I feel flawed in at least some pretty fundamental ways. 1. Humans have always been "merged" with technology. It is becoming more pervasive now, more powerful and to some extent more intimate, but it has a
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by conatus 9y ago
Is my career as a Webpack whisperer at an end? cries tears of joy ;-)
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by conatus 9y ago
I run a record label[1] and for our music that we think could have a broad appeal we are at pains to ensure there isn't too much of a instrumental intro for the reasons this article describes. It makes me a little sad that this is the
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by conatus 9y ago
The OP is a bit misleading. At the New Statesman George Eaton is reporting that the vote will be "take or leave it". Important. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/11/david-davis...
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by conatus 9y ago
I'm afraid with all due respect to the author, I have to concur. "Right now, it isn’t clear that the advantages are significant" - so why invest the time in doing so? Why not use a tried and tested version until such times as
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by conatus 9y ago
I agree. It is really unfortunate, especially for something that is trying to remove relationships of dominance.

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